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Preface
A VERY limited measure of
attention has yet been bestowed in this country upon the history of the
United States. Our youth are trained with scrupulous and laudable care
in the history and legends of Greece and Rome, but they have been
suffered to remain ignorant of the history of that people whose
marvellously rapid development is one of the grand characteristic
circumstances of the nineteenth century. Nor is it the practice of their
riper years to remedy this defect in their early education.
It is eminently desirable that
the two great branches of the Anglo-Saxon family should be fully
acquainted with each other. National dislikes spring out of ignorance,
and are wont to express themselves in war. As Britain and America know
each other better they will love each other more. The unwise prejudices
which still in some measure divide the two nations will vanish in the
light of fuller knowledge, and serious misunderstanding will become
impossible.
Every year the importance of
America to Europe increases. Every year our history connects itself more
closely with America. Even now there is no country which exercises upon
our destiny an influence so commanding. There is, therefore, no country
about which it is so indispensable that we should be fully informed.
This History is an attempt to
make the present generation better acquainted with America. It is a very
small contribution to a very great work. But here, as elsewhere, if
every man does what he can, there will be little left undone.
R. M.
DUNDEE, May 1870.
Contents
BOOK I.
CHAPTER I. DISCOVERY
CHAPTER II. COLONIZATION
CHAPTER III. VIRGINIA
CHAPTER IV. NEW ENGLAND
CHAPTER V. THE NEW ENGLAND PERSECUTIONS
CHAPTER
VI. WITCHCRAFT IN NEW ENGLAND
CHAPTER VII. THE INDIANS
CHAPTER
VIII. NEW YORK
CHAPTER
IX. PENNSYLVANIA
CHAPTER X. GEORGIA
CHAPTER XI. SLAVERY
CHAPTER XII. EARLY GOVERNMENT
BOOK Il.
CHAPTER I. GEORGE WASHINGTON
CHAPTER II.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
CHAPTER III. THE VALLEY OF THE OHIO
CHAPTER IV. AMERICA ON THE
EVE OF THE REVOLUTION
CHAPTER V. BUNKER HILL
CHAPTER VI. INDEPENDENCE
CHAPTER VII. AT
WAR
CHAPTER VIII. SYMPATHY BEYOND THE SEA
CHAPTER IX. THE WAR CONTINUES
CHAPTER X. THE
SURRENDER AT SARATOGA
CHAPTER XI. HELP FROM EUROPE
CHAPTER XII. MAJOR ANDRE
CHAPTER
XIII. THE CLOSE OF THE WAR
CHAPTER XIV. THE THIRTEEN STATES BECOME A NATION
CHAPTER
XV. THE WAR WITH GREAT BRITAIN
BOOK III.
CHAPTER I. KING COTTON
CHAPTER II SLAVERY
CHAPTER
III. MISSOURI
CHAPTER IV. HOPE FOR THE NEGRO
CHAPTER V. TEXAS
CHAPTER VI. THE WAR WITH
MEXICO
CHAPTER VII. CALIFORNIA
CHAPTER VIII. KANSAS
CHAPTER IX. THE UNDERGROUND RAILWAY
CHAPTER
X. JOHN BROWN
CHAPTER XI. EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY
CHAPTER XII. SECESSION
CHAPTER
XIII. THE TWO PRESIDENTS
BOOK IV.
CHAPTER I. THE FIRST BLOW STRUCK
CHAPTER II. THE BATTLE OF BULL
RUN
CHAPTER III. THE YOUNG NAPOLEON
CHAPTER IV. LIBERTY TO THE CAPTIVE
CHAPTER V.
CONFEDERATE SUCCESSES
CHAPTER VI. THE WAR CONTINUES
CHAPTER VII. GETTYSBURG
CHAPTER
VIII. THE LAST CAMPAIGN
CHAPTER IX. THE MURDER OF THE PRESIDENT
CHAPTER X. THE
LOSSES AND THE GAINS OF THE WAR
CHAPTER XI. AFTER THE WAR
CHAPTER XII. HOW THE
AMERICANS CARED FOR THEIR SOLDIERS
CHAPTER XIII. ENGLAND AND AMERICA
CHAPTER XIV.
REUNITED AMERICA
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